Sarah Ockwell-Smith lives with her four school-aged children, four cats and a flock of chickens in a 350 year old cottage in rural Essex.

Sarah holds a BSc in Psychology and has worked for several years in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. After the birth of her firstborn she retrained as a homeopath, hypnotherapist, antenatal teacher and doula, revelling in the mix of holistic viewpoints.

In 2007 Sarah founded BabyCalm, an organisation which has over 120 teachers in 12 countries, and a sister company called ToddlerCalm. Sarah writes two popular parenting blogs which are visited by a million readers a year and her personal website receives an average of 200,000 reads per month.

She is a regular ‘go to’ expert for Tesco Baby Club and Sky News and also writes for the mainstream press and various parenting magazines.

Her website, Gentle Parenting, covering everything from fertility, pregnancy and birth, can be found here, followed on twitter here and Facebook here.